Citing Smell, South St. Paul Residents File Suit Against Waste Oil Company

March 12, 2018 06:35 PM

For a few years, a number of South St. Paul residents say, something hasn't smelled right.

Those residents have now filed a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court Monday, claiming "noxious odors invading Plaintiffs' property are indecent and offensive." Those odors, they say, come from Sanimax, an animal rendering and waste oil company.

Sanimax, based in Wisconsin, operates the facility along Hardman Avenue in South St. Paul. Attorney Jeff Storms says about 7,500 residents in a radius 2-mile radius suffer from the smell. Storm says they've heard from about 80 households and residents who all describe the smell in the same ways.